Legal procedures, especially those related to the rights of the death row convicts, are seen as tactics to prolong the inevitable. They have contended that more victims will be killed by rapists if death penalty was written into the rape law. It is also not a coincidence that the number of extra judicial killings of rape-accused increases with the increase in capital offences in the rape law. The jurisprudence on the rights of death row convicts cannot emerge without appeals to the court. When feminist lawyers such as Rebecca John and Vrinda Grover approach the courts to represent the death row convicts, they do so with ethical responsibility.

Source: Indian Express January 23, 2020 18:45 UTC